Swedish Open Contest 2008

[joey]

I was wondering how to get from Arlanda to your place to stay?

 

[Kenneth]

Hi Joey. It is no problem, we pick you up by car.

 

[Kenneth]

Ok reserve a place for me ,this week I arrange how I go there

Wery nice Ton, I book a place for you

 

[joey]

Hi Joey. It is no problem, we pick you up by car.

Woah, that is very kind of you. But we will all be arriving at different times..?

 

[Kenneth]

Not a big deal, it's only 7 km between Arlanda and Rosersberg, we can do the ride more than once if needed.

 

[Kenneth]

OK, we are closing in on the date, Erik and Arnaud I assume you won't come because you have not registred yet? (Brussels the same weekend, much closer =)

Anybody else?, we still got some free sleeping places left if you like to come, it is "only" the cost of the travel...

 

[joey]

Ohh. Soon!! I am leaving today!

 

[Henrik]

Ill be leaving tomorrow,
I'm looking forward to two days of cubing with alot of great cubers.

Sweden here I come for the 3rd year in a row.

 

[KConny]

I'll also be leaving tomorrow. My goal is to get on to my first podium.

 

[joey]

Leaving now! Aurevoir!

 

[Kenneth]

Joey arrived late last night and stayed at my brothers place the first night. Today we will get the venue and most of the rest of the travellers will arrive today. so we will gather in the venue for a cube meeting tonight, a great oppurtunity to practice before the real contest starts tomorrow

 

[Ton]

Ok reserve a place for me ,this week I arrange how I go there

Wery nice Ton, I book a place for you

Well I will be in Brussel so I do not need a place

 

[Kenneth]

Ton: I know that already

We had a little pre-comp comp tonight, here are the results:

Johan 15.28
Gunnar 15.42
Joey 16.76
Henrik 17.46
Kåre 18.98
Oliver 19.21
Simon 21.20
Mads 28.78
Tommy 31.27
Kenneth 31.98

I don't think anybody did his best times but we had fun

EDIT: forgot, the times are averages 3(5)

 

[Kenneth]

Today we did 6x6x6 and 7x7x7 in comp. but I heard they did it in Brussels too so I'm not sure if the WR's was done in Swden or in Brussels. Oliver did good on the 7x7 but I don't have the time

But I'm sure the WR 2x2x2 BLD was done here today because it was the first time in comp. Henrik did around 30 seconds (don't have the exact time for that either =)

And the oldest BLD solver is now a 59 year old Swede named Mats.

 

[Kenneth]

Forgot:

Gunnar no inspection single: 15.0x = WR

 

[Kenneth]

Oliver did 6:36.68 on 7x7. Joey won the 6x6 but the time was not much better than Olivers 7x time 6:xx.xx.

I got all the results exept 3x3x3 finals (Gunnar won the finals, sub 15 average) but only printed onto paper, If there is a result you want I can post it here.

 

[Kenneth]

Now the unofficial results from SOC 2008 is up:

http://www.speedcubing.com/results/c.php?allResults=All+Results&competitionId=SwedishOpen2008

 

[Mike Hughey]

Those are really fun! Olivér is quite a beast at 7x7x7, huh? And way to go Kenneth on snake!

 

[Kenneth]

Thank's Mike. Before I started my Snake I did two warmups 4.0x and 4.2x-4.3x something. But when you know it counts it is much harder to do good

 

[Gunnar]

Hi!

I don't know if anybody's interested, but I'm gonna share my winning solution for the fewest moves event. i thought the scramble was quite hard. At first I didn't find anything useful, but after some trail and error I found a way to build a triple xcross in 16 moves. After that I didn't find any way to finish it until it was 5 minutes left. Then I found a way to solve the last pair, giving the opportunity to solve the LL with two OLL algs, which cancelled out a few moves.

Scramble:
B2L2U'B2U'R2U'B2R2U2L2B'DF'D'R'U2R2BL2U'

Solution:
BR2F'L'B'FU'F2R2F2U'FDB2D'F'[f']R'U'RU'BU2B2RBR2UF'RB'R'FRBU2 (35 HTM)